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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Model Validation Configuration</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog can be opened using the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Project </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">|</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField"> Model Validation</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField"> |</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField"> Configure...</span><span class="f_MenuKeyField"> </span><span class="f_BodyText">menu option. Using this dialog, you can choose which sets of validation rules are and are not executed when a user performs a validation. Rather than perform this configuration manually and potentially have to change the settings every time Enterprise Architect is started and a different technology is set active, you can define the configuration settings within the MTS file.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To specify a set of rules as a white-list (that is, anything added to this list is turned ON), open your MTS file in a text editor and copy and paste the following </span><span class="f_Code">&lt;</span><span class="f_Code">ModelValidation</span><span class="f_Code">&gt;</span><span class="f_BodyText"> block at the top level inside the </span><span class="f_Code">&lt;</span><span class="f_Code">MDG.Selections</span><span class="f_Code">&gt;</span><span class="f_BodyText"> block:</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"><span class="f_Code">&lt;ModelValidation&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="f_Code">&lt;RuleSet name=&quot;BPMNRules&quot;/&gt; &lt;!-- ruleset ID defined in the Project.DefineRuleCategory call --&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="f_Code">&lt;RuleSet name=&quot;MVR7F0001&quot;/&gt; &lt;!-- notice you can turn on/off system rules as well! --&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"><span class="f_Code">&lt;/ModelValidation&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Ensure that the ruleset IDs do not contain any spaces. </span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To specify a set of rules as a black-list (that is, anything added to this list is turned OFF), open your MTS file in a text editor and copy and paste the following </span><span class="f_Code">&lt;</span><span class="f_Code">ModelValidation</span><span class="f_Code">&gt;</span><span class="f_BodyText"> block at the top level inside the </span><span class="f_Code">&lt;</span><span class="f_Code">MDG.Selections</span><span class="f_Code">&gt;</span><span class="f_BodyText"> block:</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"><span class="f_Code">&lt;ModelValidation isBlackList=&quot;true&quot;&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="f_Code">&lt;RuleSet name=&quot;BPMNRules&quot;/&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<span class="f_Code">&lt;RuleSet name=&quot;MVR7F0001&quot;/&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_Code"><span class="f_Code">&lt;/ModelValidation&gt;</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">In the examples above, </span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">&quot;</span><span class="f_Code">BPMNRules</span><span class="f_BodyText" style="font-style: italic;">&quot;</span><span class="f_BodyText"> is the rule-set ID defined in the </span><span class="f_Code">Project.DefineRuleCategory</span><span class="f_BodyText"> call - see <a href="project_2.htm">Project Interface</a> for details. &quot;</span><span class="f_Code">MVR7F0001</span><span class="f_BodyText">&quot; is one of Enterprise Architect's built-in rule-sets. These validation options are applied when you activate the appropriate technology. The global (default) technology has all rules turned on.</span></p>




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